YCBK 477: Do You Need to Tell A College If You Drop a Course In the Middle of The 12th Grade
YCBK 478: How Canadian Universities are Different From American Universities [Transcript]YCBK 478: How Canadian Universities are Different From American Universities
Mark explains how Canadian universities are different from American universities: Rank these from 1 to 30 according to what is most important to you in a college
- Area Surrounding the College
- Campus Beauty-
- Campus is contained, protected, and distinct from the area outside the campus
- Campus Setting (large city, small city, suburban, college town, remote)
- Career Outcomes
- Class Size
- College Rankings
- Cost/Affordability
- Distance from home
- Diversity
- Experiential learning (Co-ops/Internships, Study-Abroad, Research
- Facilities
- Financial Resources and Financial Wealth
- Food Quality
- Friendliness
- Graduation and Retention Rates
- Housing Options
- Name Recognition/Prestige
- Nature/Green Spaces
- Overall Academic Excellence
- Political Climate
- Religious Affiliation and/or Religious Culture
- Residential vs Commuter Students
- Safety
- School Size-
- Sports/ School Spirit
- Strength in my major
- Student Support
- Weather
Mark interviews David Hawkins. Part 1-Preview:
- David gives his bio and he shares his current role
- Mark introduces our topic: What does the research show about how colleges make decisions, we look at Factors in College Admissions
- David explains the history of the development of the NACAC, State of College Admissions Report
- David talks about how they gather the admissions data for the report
- David talks about what the number one factor is in how colleges make decisions, and he breaks the number one category into three categories
- David explains how the top three categories overwhelmingly test as the things that matter the most to colleges, and David shares the numbers to back this up
- David shares the factor that comes in at number 4 of factors colleges rate as considerably important and moderately important, and David points out that they just recently started adding this factor in their survey and it has already shot up to number 4
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